I am not and have never been much of a coffee drinker but I really liked the machine and always felt that it brewed a pretty good cup of Joe using the cup system. What he/we moved to though was the independent reusable cup that you can buy for it with Dunkin Donuts coffee grounds. If there is one brand of coffee I do really like, it is Dunkin Donuts Original. Alas, it broke on him after about 4 or 5 months and he just went back to a regular machine. I really liked the idea of getting one for home but I just don't drink that much coffee, but I'm rethinking it since it's freezing balls cold here now and I usually need a little caffeine in the morning to kick start the Ritalin and Nuvigil. I think you'll like it. Oh, and you can do teas too which is a bonus because waiting for water to boil to drink teas sucks.